Noel King

Let's, you know, blow up the boat.

Some of it is people claiming and I've seen a lot of this people claiming to be public health experts or doctors and saying, you know, it's time to panic.

It's time to freak out.

As people are consuming news about this.

How should they best make sure that what they're getting is accurate?

It's sober.

It's not hysteria.

Laurel Bristow, she's an infectious disease researcher with the Emory Rollins School of Public Health.

Coming up, what we did and didn't learn from COVID.

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